The Pennsylvania State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC) held its 2019 Baseball Championship Tournament this past weekend at Showers Field. Penn State DuBois came into the tournament holding the No. 1 seed in the Western Division. DuBois first game would be against the No. 3 seed from the east, Brandywine.
LuAnn Demi, of Clearfield, has been named the DuBois Educational Foundation Educator of the Year for 2019. Demi is an assistant teaching professor in the Occupational Therapy Assistant program at Penn State DuBois, as well as the OTA program director.
Members of the Penn State DuBois class of 2019 officially joined the Penn State alumni community on Friday evening, May 3, as commencement ceremonies were celebrated in the campus gymnasium. Chancellor M. Scott McBride presided over the ceremonies, with Professor Arshad Khan serving as faculty marshal. Special guest speaker Joyce Fairman provided the commencement address.
Emily H. Thomas, lecturer in the Wildlife Technology program at Penn State DuBois, has been honored with an Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from the Pennsylvania State University Forest Resources Alumni Group.
The Penn State University Athletic Association baseball championships are set to begin this Sunday, May 5, at Shower’s Filed in DuBois. Penn State DuBois will face Penn State Brandywine at 12:30 p.m. in the second round of the double-elimination tournament.
The Penn State DuBois softball team will begin Penn State Athletics Conference championship play at 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 5, against Penn State Hazleton. Started just three years ago, this is the first time the DuBois team has made the conference playoffs.
Penn State DuBois Continuing and Community Education will offer Engineer in Training prep classes beginning in June. The 12-week, 72-hour course will run from 5 until 8 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays from June 3 to Aug. 22.
A group of wildlife technology students at Penn State DuBois have contributed to reclaiming some area mine land while gaining valuable, real-world lessons. Lecturer in Wildlife Technology Carrie O’Brien took two sections of her class to a site in the Moshannon State Forest in Elk County in late April to help plant trees in a large-scale effort to reforest a 35-acre portion of public ground.
A 2019 graduate of the Penn State DuBois Information Sciences and Technology (IST) program is launching his career with the nation’s leading producer of military technology in areas of aeronautics, maritime systems, space exploration and more. CJ Seitz, of Treasure Lake, landed a position as a software engineering associate with Lockheed Martin months before his graduation.
